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Originally Posted by Frans  The million dollar experiment was launched a few years ago when Steve just started this Personal Development web site.
Apparently, Steve doesn't endorse this method anymore. |
This is well and good for those who've successfully dealt with all their issues with money and financial abundance, and Steve has been at that point for a long time. However, for those of us still unearthing all our issues, manifesting financial abundance is (IMHO) a necessary step. We have to become comfortable around it, we have to switch our mindsets, and if we don't-- if we just concentrate on delivering value-- it is too easy for our old fears and thought patterns to mold any success to their template.
For example, if I become comfortable with money and erase any doubt about being successful, then when I am successful money will not be an issue, I'll handle whatever comes in quite well. If I don't work through basic money issues and attracting financial abundance, any success I have will be subject to my belief that I'll never make money doing what I love, or that I'll always be in debt, or that I don't have enough money to truly go all out and do what I want to do. Money is such a basic need-- whether your society uses coins, wheat stalks, bartering, or differently sized pebbles, your society has some form of equal exchange for goods-- and our beliefs are so deep-seated, that working for financial abundance is a necessary step. If the money happens to combine with your chosen field or value, wonderful. My intending has gotten me two small work projects at a time of the year when I normally don't get any from this company.
Steve had an earlier blog post in which he advocated homelessness/living on a park bench over things like holding a job, and in that one even he admitted that Erin wasn't too keen on the park-bench idea. Keep in mind he's writing from his own point of view, which is at a way different evolutionary point than ours.
If anything, the new blog post is something we shouldn't read, because it opens up the old fear about how money is a bad thing to manifest and thus a bad thing to want, leading to doubt about anything we get from this experiment and all our past work. It's also kind of like "Don't think of a pink elephant." It pretty much guarantees we're going to start thinking about money, and we risk slipping back into thinking about how we may not have the money we want.